>There is only 1 field in each record - it's a memo field - I need the text file created by file to string to have a carriage return at the end of each line
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>So a file containing 12 records would have 12 lines in the text file each terminating with a carriage return
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>This is an example of the memo filed in the dbf
>
>"B","4561234","10/06/2014","98.50","7220726","MERRILL CORPORATION LIMITED","CUSTOMER SERVICE","101 FINSBURY PAVEMENT 2ND FLOOR","LONDON EC2A 1ER","LONDON","","EC2A 1ER","GB","MAYER INTERNATIONAL LTD","","1 CABOT SQUARE","CANARY WHARF","INDIA","LO","E14","IN",""

o.k.
off topic: You can altter a message in UT by the Update link below the message

For your problem

SELECT yourTable
lcx = "" &&initial
SCAN FOR [expression that filters out record b]
 lcx = lcx+YourMemofield+0h0D &&I prefer the literal to the function CHR(13)
ENDSCAN
STRTOFILE(lcx,YourFileName)

This will create:
a text file,
one line per record,
line ends with CR,
empty records are empty lines,
last line ends with CR

Lutz